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This wearable uses your skin to enhance your body awareness

Next Generation • 5 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Flair is a wearable that uses the sensors in your skin to enhance your perception of your body and the world around you. >
Mumbai's iconic cabs used to showcase emerging designers

Design News • 5 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Young designers are using Mumbai's taxis to take art to the people with the Taxi Fabric project. >
Activists and creatives in Angola call for the release of political prisoners

Design News • 4 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Angolan artists, journalists, musicians and activists launch a video campaign that calls for the release of political prisoners in Luanda. >
Le Dessien empowers women through educated fashion

Design News • 4 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Socially minded fashion label Le Dessien raises money to help underprivileged girls pay for an education. >
Create 3D photographs with your smartphone or tablet using Bevel

Design News • 4 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Bevel is the first accessory capable of turning a smartphone or tablet into a 3D camera. >
Trailer: Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry through her textiles

Trailers • Duration: 00:01:30 • 4 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections. >
Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry in her textiles

Talks • Duration: 00:11:19 • 4 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections. >
"Garage" is a new comic magazine from a collective of Arabic artists

Design News • 4 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Egyptian twin-artists Haitham and Mohamed Raafat El-seht are releasing a comic magazine created by an Arabic-comics' collective. >
MOM is designed to save “the lost generation” of refugees

Design Frontiers • 4 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A British student has designed an inflatable incubator specifically to save the lives of premature babies born in refugee camps. >
MBFWCT 2015: The future of SA fashion is looking bright

Next Generation • 3 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town (MBFWCT) raised the local fashion pulse and showed the world what to expect next from South Africa. >
Kiara Gounder: 3D printed fashion

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:18 • 3 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Fashion designer Kiara Gounder integrates advanced 3D printing technology and natural shapes into her designs. >
The twig chair: Nendo’s most recent design

Product Spotlight • 3 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Japanese studio Nendo creates a minimalist seat with a changeable backrest for designer furniture brand Alias. >
Meet Dot, the braille smart watch for the visually impaired

Design News • 3 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

Created by a South Korean start-up Dot, this Braille smart watch could help unlock the digital world for visually impaired people. >
Turn air into water as you ride your bike

Design Frontiers • 3 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

A Viennese industrial designer has created a solar-powered device that collects up to 500ml of condensation per hour as you ride your bike. >
The BillBed means a good night's sleep for Pakistan's homeless

Design News • 3 Aug 15 • Sponsored Content

The award-winning MoltyFoam campaign turns a billboard into a bed for those sleeping on the streets. >
Catching poachers on a rhino-cam

Design News • 31 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

With only four northern white rhinos left, this design-oriented solution may be the answer to the catastrophic decline of rhinos due to poaching. >
The unpredictable Frankenphones of Shenzen, China

FilmFestFriday • 31 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Unlike the people of Shenzen, China, you probably own a device from one of two smartphone brands and you haven’t even asked yourself why. >
A solar-powered schoolbag

Design News • 31 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

South African company Rethaka has designed a recycled bag with a solar light that charges during the day so children can study at night. >
Kids' wheelchairs become giant paintbrushes

Design Frontiers • 31 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

An artist in the US has dedicated his life to creating art tools for children with disabilities. >
The sweeter side of 3D printing

Design News • 31 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Designer Julian Sing creates miniature sugar sculptures with a 3D printer. >
A rainbow of hope covers a drug infused district

Design News • 31 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

A perilous Mexican town has had a bright makeover, bringing colour to its walls and optimism to its residents. >
This shower turns into a monster if you use too much water

Design News • 30 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Installation artist Elisabeth Buecher created this Tim Burton-inspired shower curtain that inflates into spikes to stop you using too much water. >
African artists are coming around for dinner

Design News • 30 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Group exhibition “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” in New York celebrates the growing impact of African art and artists on the global stage. >
Four talents to watch on Accra’s indie art scene

African Report • 30 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Ghanaian society traditionally regarded artists as outcasts. Now they are helping the country rebrand itself, say the founders of ACCRA [dot] ALT. >

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